Re: st: findvar command?

As you probably already know, there's a command called "look for" that
matches strings in variable names and in variable labels. Then "describe
[var name], number" tells you where the variable is in the file.

Note that this sequence is more than a bit clunky. When I used to use SPSS
long ago, there was a "find variable" command of some kind that put
everything in alphabetic order in a list and then if you selected a
variable, it would take you to that point in the data spread sheet. I wish
Stata had something like that.

Dave Jacobs

At 10:19 AM 11/14/2003 -0500, you wrote:

I attended the Stata conference in Boston earlier this year
and I swear I heard someone mention that there was a command called
-findvar- that made finding variables in a dataset with many, many
variables easy. I found the -dsearch- command which does 90% of
what I want. I performed a -findit- search and didn't come up
with anything on -findvar-.
Any information regarding this would be helpful.
thanks,
dan
dan_blanchette@unc.edu
carolina population center, unc-ch
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